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Apple Removes eBay From Featured Apple Watch Apps Website [Updated]
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Than you need to see an eye doctor or get better glasses.
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You also need to see an eye doctor than.
That doesn't look the same to me
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Ebay fees are 10% for a basic auction style listing (with or without buy it now) http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html.
Yes you got get higher if you put a reserve, and dress up the listing. But it's not close 20%, unless you max out the ad display options for a $10 item or something silly like that.
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On the phone screen they both looks fine, and in fact I just got new glasses last week.
If it were a little bit sharper I would not really care, it makes no difference to me when buying something from eBay.
Honestly, it that really bugs you, there must be a lot of things in life that drive you absolutely crazy.
On the phone screen they both looks fine, and in fact I just got new glasses last week.
If it were a little bit sharper I would not really care, it makes no difference to me when buying something from eBay.
Honestly, it that really bugs you, there must be a lot of things in life that drive you absolutely crazy.
You must be using a 6 because it looks like **** on my 6 Plus. When you scale an app up from 1136x640 to 2208x1242 then downsample to 1920x1080, yeah it's gonna look real fuzzy.
And yes it does drive me nuts because this multi-million dollar company is too lazy to get off their butt to code a decent app for the latest revision of smart phones, especially since I pay them 10% of every sale I make on their website. Meanwhile, Amazon was one of the first apps updated not only for the 6 and 6 Plus but for the Apple Watch as well and is even ARM-64 native.
Figure I'd kick eBay while they are down. Still no eBay Widget that they advertised when Apple revamped iOS to support them. Very LAME. It looked so cool when they showed the possibilities. How are people not bringing this up has it been forgotten?
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Not the Developers' Fault
I live in Portland, OR, and know personally many of the developers who work here for eBay Mobile. Maybe it's different in San Jose, but here, all those who've worked on the PayPal app are in the same building as the other mobile developers. AND there are many highly-competent developers here, especially those acquired when eBay Mobile bought out software contractor Critical Path. Those people are constantly frustrated by the mess that is eBay's far-flung management bureaucracy. Trying to mate eBay's arcane Web code, full of ancient bugs and clunky work-arounds, to modern mobile platforms is difficult and thankless work. A recent round of layoffs got rid of some excellent workers here while protecting the jobs of others in San Jose, who have better personal contact with management. eBay as a whole uses the highly-dysfuntional "Stack Ranking" system for rating worker performance, which mandates that some members of each team receive "unsatisfactory" performance ratings during each round of reviews, REGARDLESS of actual performance. This method of "grading on a curve" ensures that good workers get penalized and become demoralized, as there is no way for a whole team to get "excellent" reviews, no matter how well they work. There IS something wrong at eBay, but the fault lies with their upper-level managers and marketers, not the mobile developers.
I live in Portland, OR, and know personally many of the developers who work here for eBay Mobile. Maybe it's different in San Jose, but here, all those who've worked on the PayPal app are in the same building as the other mobile developers. AND there are many highly-competent developers here, especially those acquired when eBay Mobile bought out software contractor Critical Path. Those people are constantly frustrated by the mess that is eBay's far-flung management bureaucracy. Trying to mate eBay's arcane Web code, full of ancient bugs and clunky work-arounds, to modern mobile platforms is difficult and thankless work. A recent round of layoffs got rid of some excellent workers here while protecting the jobs of others in San Jose, who have better personal contact with management. eBay as a whole uses the highly-dysfuntional "Stack Ranking" system for rating worker performance, which mandates that some members of each team receive "unsatisfactory" performance ratings during each round of reviews, REGARDLESS of actual performance. This method of "grading on a curve" ensures that good workers get penalized and become demoralized, as there is no way for a whole team to get "excellent" reviews, no matter how well they work. There IS something wrong at eBay, but the fault lies with their upper-level managers and marketers, not the mobile developers.
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Ebay fees are 10% for a basic auction style listing (with or without buy it now) http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html.
Yes you got get higher if you put a reserve, and dress up the listing. But it's not close 20%, unless you max out the ad display options for a $10 item or something silly like that.
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On the phone screen they both looks fine, and in fact I just got new glasses last week.
If it were a little bit sharper I would not really care, it makes no difference to me when buying something from eBay.
Honestly, it that really bugs you, there must be a lot of things in life that drive you absolutely crazy.
The app itself doesn't drive me crazy at all. What drives me crazy tho is how bad eBay and PayPal developers are, they are so far behind it's embarrassing. Remember this is eBay I'm talking about, not some app made by 1 guy.
If you cannot tell from my screenshots how the eBay app is blown up and blurry than maybe you don't notice these things. Just look at the status bar and how big it is. Compare that than to the crispness of the Amazon app. It's night and day
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It looks **** on a 6 too.
Some people must have terrible eyesight, it's probably the once that also claim to not see a difference between a retina screen and a non retina screen.
Because eBay and PayPal developers set the standard so low that I suppose no one cares anymore. They way they are going we are going to get eBay and PayPal support on iPhone 6/6plus in 2016, PayPal Touch ID support in 2017 and apple watch support in 2018.
They are making like 30% of their profit from iOS apps, I believe. Shows you what inept management they have and apparently nobody cares for 7 months and counting.
Than you got apps made by one person or small team such as the kickass "transit" app which already has apple watch support, widgets and iPhone 6 support. Like I said before some developers such as Twitter, NY Times should get a bonus from Apple because they always update ASAP, be it features such as continuity, extensions, screen support etc
Yep. Seems the trend these days. Old school managers that have no clue what they are doing and what people want in the tech world that is the year 2015.
Than they fail miserably (sapphire glass company Apple bought, Ericsson, Motorola etc) and than talk a lot of crap about Apple this, monopoly here, overpriced this, patent that.
Apple is number one because, believe it or not, they actually do what people want right now, not want they might have wanted or what would have been sufficient in 2000.
Say what you want about Microsoft but at least this Satya Nadella guy understands this finally compared to the failure that was Steve balmer.
Piling on the PayPal app hate here, a 44 mb app with 1/2 the functionality of the desktop site...yay.
Agreed. Apple should stop "showcasing", and hence giving free endorsements, to big-name companies like eBay if they cannot meet Apple's development expectations.
The small indie developers may not be as recognizable, but Apple needs to give them credit when they are on the ball.
There are only three things I need out of the eBay app: what's the current state of stuff I'm watching, buying, or selling. That said, it looks fine to me.
Are you sure you haven't forgotten to update the app in the last 2 years?
Lol. I didn't say the eBay app didn't work fine or doesnt do the job.
Is it too much to ask tho to update one of the biggest apps around for the new iphones that came out 8 months ago. I repeat, 8 months ago. You know the ones that sold like 100Million + units and broke all records.
What about the widgets they showed at WWDC 12 months ago? Again I repeat, 12 months ago. Its just terrible and even the chaos that is called the "Philips Hue" developer team do a better job than ebay.
Havent I updated the app in 2 years, you are joking right?
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I get notifications for bids on my watch now, but other than that, meh who is surprised? eBay is a clownshow, has been for at least 6-7 years. Fees go up and up and up, 10% on top of PayPal fees and shipping value fees. And then they have the nerve to remove ability to leave deadbeats negative feedback. They are run by clowns.
F those guys
As far as I am concerned, I will never use eBay or PayPal again. I have not used them for years.
I sold something on eBay a few years ago. The Buyer scammed eBay by claiming he never got the merchandise (shipping tracking proved otherwise). eBay did not care to inquire of me and instead reached right into my bank account, via its link with my PayPal account, and refunded the guy hundreds of dollars.
I had no recourse, and was met with a customer service stonewall.
I immediately unlinked my bank account from PayPal and have never again used either service.
F those guys.
As far as I am concerned, I will never use eBay or PayPal again. I have not used them for years.
I sold something on eBay a few years ago. The Buyer scammed eBay by claiming he never got the merchandise (shipping tracking proved otherwise). eBay did not care to inquire of me and instead reached right into my bank account, via its link with my PayPal account, and refunded the guy hundreds of dollars.
I had no recourse, and was met with a customer service stonewall.
I immediately unlinked my bank account from PayPal and have never again used either service.
F those guys.
Hallelujah we at least got PayPal with Touch ID now. Love how they insist on always listening to feedback tho lol. Come on phone 6 support